Run At The Dog

Marshall Bolin and Jenny Case founded Run At The Dog while writing songs in the Immersion Composition Society, a worldwide network of musicians who honor the spontaneous creative impulse by creating “day albums”—collections of songs recorded in 24 hours or less. The songs on Scutigera, Yeah! were composed entirely within the context of day album sessions.

Bolin and Case recruited Maureen Koenig, Eli Stone, and Erik Lunna (later replaced by Jake Mohan) and began recording Scutigera, Yeah! The album was engineered and mixed by the band, with ample assistance from Joe Johnson at Fur Seal Studio.

Scutigera, Yeah! chronicles the everyday triumphs and travails that characterize the modern human condition: the misplaced ambitions of med school students, sociopathic German girls with tendencies toward megalomania, suicidal high school pariahs, survivor’s guilt in populations stricken by earthquakes, masquerade balls gone horribly awry, and the philosophies of Erich Fromm, Pema Chodron, and the Kabbalah (among others).

Run At The Dog crashes the gates of vocal pop, classic rock, and prog rock armed with elements of hip-hop, electronic music, country, metal, and soul. But the band strives to move beyond eclecticism for eclecticism’s sake and toward a sonic diversity that is thoughtful, joyous, and executed with a cohesive vision. Scutigera, Yeah! is music conceived spontaneously, arranged lovingly, and performed ecstatically.